Condenser.



G. B. PETSOHE.

CONDENSER. APPLICATION FILED DEO.17, 1907. RENEWED DEC. 20, 1911.

Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

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ATTORNEY.

G. B. PETSGHE.

CONDENSER. APPLICATION FILED 11110.17, 1907, RENEWED DEC 20, 1911.

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GUSTAV B. ?ETSCHE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, TO SOUTH'WARK FOUNDRY AND MACHINE COMPANY, OF PHILADELLHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A COB- PORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed December 17, 1907, Serial No. 406,855. Renewed December 20, 1911.

Another object is the production of a con denser construction in which suitable pro- .vision is made by which the expansion and contraction of the condenser parts resulting from the varying temperatures to which the condenser is subjected may take place without injury to the condenser.

The various features of novelty which characterize the invention are pointed out with particularityin the claims annexed to and fonnin'g' a part of this specification. For a better nderstanding of the inven tion, howe'v ,agid the advantages possessed by 1t, reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in avhich l have illustrated and described one of the forms in which be embodied v Of the drawings; Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 52-42 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings I have shown the condenser as employed in conjunction with a steam turbine A. The exhaust chamber .5. of the steam turbine being connected by the lateral. pipe section A? to the base member from which rises the vertical steam pipe B of the condenserpropeix The bottom of the base the invention may member 13 is slidingly supported .on' the horizontal slide rails Qwlnch, as shown,

extend parallel to the pipesection A The slide rail. C rests upon the cover C" of the hot well C, the cover being supported on the transverse beams The condensing chamber is formed by a drum D which is supported by the exhaust pipe- B. The upper end of the pipe B projects some distance into the drum D, which is of materially larger diameter than Specification of Letters Patent. pgfientgfl A 0 27 191% Serial No. 667,085.

pipe B,'thus forming a reservoir or space D into which the hot water collects and from which leads the main tail or waste pipe F. Between the upper and lower ends of the drum D is connected the cold water supply pipe E and the outlet'G for the exhaust or vacuum pump. Connection G leads from the side of the drum D adjacent its upper end. The drum D is provided with the usual water reservoirs Dvand D and ballles or water spreaders D and D and with a scparatormember or battle D The member I) is in the form of a hollow truncated cone secured at its base to the member 1) below the outlet to the connection G and projecting in front of said connection, and as shown having its open upper end D extending above the outlet G Provision is made, as by ports D for allowing watercollecting in the space D to pass ownward into the reservoir D.

The pipe G which runs from the connection G to a pump or other pressure exhauster not'shown, leads from the connection G above the lower end of a tubular member G which serves to prevent Water which may be carried in to the connection G from passing into the pipe G. The connection G has an air inlet port G controlled by the value H, which is normally'held in position to close the port G by the spring acting on the external cap H connected to the outer end of the valve stem H The lower end of the connection G is open to the hot well through the tail pipe I. The lower ends of the hot well tail pipes F and I extend into casings I and F respectively, havingfflap outlet valves I and F and normally resting on the seat C provided at the bottom of the hot well.

In normal operation, water enters the condenser chamber D through the conduit E, and passing downward eventually flows to the hot well through the tail pipe F the steam entering the condenser chamber D from the engine through conduitB being condensed by this water. Any considerable flow of water out of the condenser D into the connection G which may occur from time to time results at once in the accumulation of sufficient water in the leaky receptacle H to pull open the valve H against the action of the spring normally holding it closed, thus admitting air to the condenser chamber to break the vacuum therein and are arranged at one side-of the pipe B and restore the normal downward flow of the the tail pipe F at theother side, so that the water in the condenser. When the normal weight of each of-these connections tends counter current action of the condenser is to counterbalance that of the other.

5 interrupted and water begins to pass up- Having now described my invention, 70 ward instead of downward, the conical sepawhat I claim as new and desire to secure rator 1) tends to check the flow of the by Letters Patent is: condensing water into connection G, as the 1. In combination in a steam condenser, change in direction of fl'ow of the water vertical steam pipe, a condensing chamber produced by the separator or battle D persupported at the other end thereof, a lat- 75 mits the water to accumulate in the space eral steam supply conduit connected to the D from whence it may pass down, in part lower end of the steam pipe, and a horizon- 1 at least, through ports I) into the lower tal support on which said pipe rests and a portion of the condensingchamber. Itwill on which it is free to move as the lateral '15 be understood that tail pipes 'F and I proconnection expands and'contracts. 30 ject above the surface of the water in the 2. In combination in a steam condenser, hot well C a distance exceeding the height a vertical steam pipe, a condensing chant, of a barometric column of water. ber supported at the upper end thereof, a

/Vith the construction described, the exlateral steam supply conduit connected to haust pipe B supports the rest of theconthe lower end of the steam pipe, a horizon- 35 denser proper and is entirely free to expand tal support on which said pipe rests and on without injuring in any way the partsof the which it is free to move as the lateral conapparatus supported by it. The result of nection expands and contracts, and a hot such expansion and contraction being water waste pipe and a vacuum pump conmerely to raise and lower the upper end. of nection secured to and depending: from op- 90 the condenser. Similarly, the lateral conposite sides of said condensing chamber. nection between the engine and the pipe B 3. In combination in a steam condenser, may expand and contract freely without a vertical steam pipe, a condensing chamany injurious consequences, since the only ber supported and surrounding the upper eli'ect of such expansion and contraction end of the steam pipe, and a hot water waste 95 is to move the condensing'apparatus toward connection leading from the l space and away from the engine. The mounting formed between the inner wall-of the con of the condensing apparatus 011 a suitable; l sing chamber and the portion of the platform such as is formed by the slide rails steam pipe entering the chamber.

C permits this contraction and expansion to V 4-, I combination in a, steamcondenser, 100 k place Without j g r rf r ng a vertical steam pipe threughfwhich the with the operation of the apparatus in any team ascends, a condens ng chamber, v way. .The advantages of a construction through which the condensingwater norwhich permits the condensing parts and the many fl v'v' downward, supported by the 40 connection. between it and the engine to t am' i e at its upper end, coldwater sup- 1 5 expand and contract freely and without ly, vacuum ump and hot water waste constraining any connections or causing the nections tosaid chamber, the vacuum pump parts to warp or buckle will be appreciated ecnnection leading from the side 0 said when it is realized that the diameter of the ch b r dj cent it upper end and the cold '45 steam pipe B may well equal or exceed water supply connection leading to a resero eight r ten feet, and that the range of voir' within the condensing'chamber having? temperatures to whic t e appara us s its water level located below the vacuum subjected is several hundred degrees. u onnection, and means for causing The construction disclosed possesses the wat r which passes above the normal cold advan age f h v ng a fre and Im b'S IIl water reservoir level to be carried above the ed communication between the exhaustvacuum pump connection-and then permitchamber of the engine and the condensing ting such water to flow below the vacuum chamber proper, and economizing space and pump connectiom material, since the steam pipe itself forms 5. In combination in a steam condenser,

55 the supporting structure for the rest of the a condensing chamber through which the apparatus. By making the vacuum pump condensing water norm lly flows downconnection to the side of the condensing ward, a vacuum pump connection leading chamber proper and arranging the separafrom the side of said chamber adjacent 1ts tor member D within the condensing chamupper end, means for supplying condensing 60 her, as shown, the height of the complete water to said chamber at a level belowsaid apparatus is reduced, an important considconnection, ineans for supplying steam to oration where the head room is limited, as be condensed to said chamber at a level bewhere the condenser is located beneath over low the first mentioned level, and a baflle head cranes or the like. By preference, as extending from the inner wall ofthe con- 'sli'own, thewconnection' G and tail pipe I (lensing chamber below the vacuum pump connection and projecting above said first mentioned level and in front of said con nection, said battle-being arranged to permit water carried above its upper end to flow downward into the condensing chamber from the space between the battle and the wall of the condensing chamber.

6. In combination in a steam condenser, a condensing chamber, a vacuum pump connection leading from the side of the condensing chamber adjacent its upper end, an

overflow reservoir for condensing water located below said connection, a steam supply ctmncction to the condensing chamber at a level below said reservoir, and a battle extending from the wall of the condensing chamber at a level below said vacuum pump connection and projecting above the reservoir level and in front of said vacuum pump connection, said bathe being'apertured to permit Water carried into the space between it and the'wall of the condensing chamber to flow back into the condensing chamber.

7. A barometric condenser having a suction pipe connected with the upper portion of its condensing chamber, a steam inlet pine extending vertically upward through. the bottom wall of the condenser and terminating within said chamber, and means for discharging water into said chamber intermediate of the upper end of the steam pipe and of the point of connection of the suction pipe, the suction pipe acting to create a counter current of steam upwardly through the dischargedwater;substantially as described.

8. A barometric condenser having a suction pipeconnected with the upper portion of its condensing chamber, a steam inlet pipe extending vertically upwardly through the bottom Wall of the condenser andterminatin within said chamber, means-for discharging water into said chamber intermediate of the upper end of the steam pipe and of the point of connection of the suction pipe, the suction pipe acting to create a countercurrent of steam upwardly through the discharged water, and a tail pipe con-.

of water; substantially as described.

9. A barometric condenser having a suction pipe connected with the upper portion oi the co-ndenslng chamber, a steam inlet pipe extending vertically upward through the bottom wall of the condenser and tel-minatmg within said chamber, means for d1scharging water into said chamber intermediate of the upper end of the steam pipe and of the point of connection oi the suction pipe, the suction pipe acting to create a. countercurrent of steam upwardly through the discharged water, and said pipe having means at its upper end for preventing the discharge of water thereinto; substantially as described.

10. Ina barometric condenser, the combination with the condensing 'chamber,.of a

vertical steam pipe attached at its upper end to, and serving as a support column for, said condensing chamber, an external Water supply conduit leading to said condensing chamber, and a tail pipe connected at its upper end to the lower end of said chamber arranged externally of said steam pipe.

11; In a barometric condenser, a structure comprising a hollow supporting column serving as a steam pipe and a shell carried at the upper end of said column of larger internal horizontal section than said column and serving as a condensing chamber, a tail pipe leading down from the lower end of p the condensing chamber externally of the a column, means including an external supply conduit for discharging condensing water into the condensing chamber adjacent its upper end, and provisions Within the con (lensing chamber for causing the condensing water and water of condensation to pass out of the condensing chamber into said tail pipe.

GUSTAV BL PETSCHE, Witnesses:

ARNOLD KA'rz, D. STEWART.

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